OPIUM HOUSES IN SHANGHAI AND HONGKONG.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY JUNE 8
ALLEGED HIGHWAY ROBBERY,
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A COOLIE'S LITTLE GAME. On "thaf sth tit, "Mi T. C. Taylor naked
The Peking correspondent of the N. C. D. With his jacket covered with black pepper News writes on 24th all Viceroy Tuan Fang whether in the Chiriste ruled city of Shanghai and, seemingly, in great pain, a coolie reported reports the establishment of a squadron of opipm dens had alt bear closed since June last; ta Inspector Robertion, at No: 7 Police Station Chinese gunboats to keep the peace on fa.beasy state of affairs at present existing inAWING to the inclemency of the weather. whether in every foreign settlement in China, last night that he had been the victim of land watchways adjacent to Shanghai, The except Shaoghal, the opium dess had been for "bard of robbers." He was returning home squadron which is the work of H.E. J Trng some time past shut up what action the at about chi o'clock, he said, when lately Customs Tactal of Shanghai and officer municipal council of the International settle number of men-the exact number he could ment of Shanghal had taken to close the not state-held him up, and relieved bins in charge of the suppression of pirates and salt numerous opium dens they now license; and of $180, The "robbery" took place in Des mugglers, is to be composed of sight light whether they had fixed a dnie, and, if 10 what Vieux Road West. Detectives were immwooden gunboats and sixty-eight sampan
dreaght river gunboats, twenty-four Chinese date, after which all their opium dens shall be diately sent out to inquire into the affair. closed.
It might bere be stated that although the coolie's jacket was covered with pepper none of it entered his eyes, which, naturally, caused suspicion. After some hours investigating the police were in receipt of information that the coolie's story was a fake. A search was then made for him, but with no result I would appear from the facts collected by the police that the coolie called at the house of an acquaint ance at Second Street, yesterday morning, and asked for the loan of $180,
Sir E, Grey: The reply to the first question is in the affirmative. No apium dens exist at present in any British concessions in China, but I am unable to say whether that is the case is all other foreign concessions. On March 20 the ratepayers of the Shanghai international metllement adopted a resolution whereby the number of opium houses was to be reduced by quarter from July 'next. The chairman of the municipal council explained at the time that this was part of a programme of periodical reductions leading to complete abolition in two years or less. The Viceroy of Nanking is stated to have expressed his satisfaction at this
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An hon. member asked if any compensation had been awarded to license-holders.
Sir E. Gray; I am not aware of any. (aughter.)
Mr. T. C. Taylor asked the Under-Secretary for the Colonies whether he was's are, that in a large number of the chief cities of China all open dens, had been closed by border of the that in Hongkong the Colonial Government derived & considerable revenus from licensing opium dens; and whether the time had at length come when steps should be taken to terminate the opium traffic in that colony.
Colonel Seely I understand that the reply
Chinese Government; whether he was aware
to the first paragraph of the question is in the
scarcely accurate to refer to a considerable
friend.
What do you want it for?" inquired the The coolie explained that he had $180 of his qwe, but that was not sufficient for his purpose.
He wanted the extra $ 80 to go into business.
"Where is your $180?" was the next query The applicant replied that his money was in
the keeping of a shopkeeper who was away in
problems of our government in India. bomb factory upon the Russian model has
dastardly crime. Meanwhile, the rising of the been discovered in Calcula, and two English. women bave been destroyed by a cruel and These are to be built and maintained by Klangsu ad Chakiang The squadron is to be placed
Mobmands has developed into Informat under the command of o è commander-ip-hostilities with the subjects of the Amir. chief who will receive his orders directly from the Viceroy and the Governors of Kiangen and Chekiang: Besides the Commander-in-Chief, there will be two Sub-Cimmanders, eight first class captains, twenty-four second class cap tains and sixty-eight lieutenants while each foreign built gunboat is to be manned by sixty marine, and each Chinese boat from thinly to ibiny-five or forty marines and each sampan by ten man, The total strength of his squadron is about 3,000 officers and men and its headquarters will be at a central place on the Taibu. H. E. Jui Tie 17 has nominated Colonels Yu-lin to be Comman der-in-Chief. The bampans will be used for pursuing pirate boats in the small rivers and
through which our rule in Asia has ever passed: We are approaching the most critical' time
Never has native disaffection been so wide spread and acute throughout the whole extent great the danger from Afghanistan and untam of our Indian dependency. Never bau boen so
The forces of the Amir's subjects and of the od clans nominally within our own frontier. ties within the Durand line are conterminous They are animated by the same seal for religion, the same passion for loot, and the same an tipathy to advancing civilisation. In spite of the feracity of their local differences, they are animated as against ourselves by a natural solidarity of scaliment which it would be futile by any Peter the Hermit of the border whom to deny and foolish to iguate. A jehad preached
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Kowloon and would not be back for a couple of streams where the foreign Ind. Chinese gun we may choose to call a Mad Mullah, and informed that their Goods, "with the exception
days. The shopkeeper, he added, carried on a business on the Praya West,
"I am quite willing to lend you the money," said the friend, on condition ibat you show me your $180. If you want it in a hurry I will accompany you to the shop and inquire for myself"
The coolie observed that he did not want to
give him so much trouble. If his friend would. wait he would go to the shop alone and get his
money.
The friend agreed, and the coolie left. Thai
boats cannot penetrate.
Arms will be supplied by the Klanggan arsenal at Shanghai and the officers and men are to be selected from among the certificated students of the Naval college at Nanking and from the ships of the Peiyang and Nanyang squadrons.
ACCIDENT AT CAUSEWAY BAY
ADED COOLIE KNOCKED DOWN BY
A CAR,
backed by open or covert encouragement from Kabul might bring half a million fighting men into arms against us, among some of the most formidable natural fastnesses on earth. Peace. or war in this case is one of the gravest ques.
lions with which the Empire has over beer coatrouled. Yel that question is at the mercy of the touch-and-go accidents of a hair-trigger situation,
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affirmative, but as regards the second, that it he had no money in the shop is certain. After An old coolie came very near being killed | possibly pravo as great a strain upon our mili. All claims must be sent in to me on or before revenue" as the amount to be derived from thinking the coolie purchased some pepper which he sprickled all over his clothes--except his eyes
Then he returned, after lingering about for an hour, to his friend's house in a most excited" condition, and reported that after getting his money from the shop he was "held up" and robbed. In order to enforce itis statement he next visited the police station where he told the same tale, ́ ́
licences for 1908 would appear to amount to only 18; the third paragraph, as my hon. friend wi'l agree, is difficult to deal with in question and answer, but I gather I may have an opportunity of expressing the views of His Majesty's Government on the matter in the course of debate to-morrow evening.
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Concluding a leading article on the opium de bate in Parliament, the L,&• Chapien, writes: In regard to the colonies of Hongkong and the Straits Settlements, in which must be in- cluded the Federated Malay States, action will
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The coolie's trick is obvious. He believed that when his friend heard he was robbed of all, his world possession" the $180 would be forthcoming and that would have been the last seen of him. But his little game did not come
TRIAL MARRIAGES.
LADY MAKES ASTOUNDING PROPOSALS. In a piquant book just published, called "Modern Marriage and How to Bear it," by Mr. Maud, Churton Braby (published by T.
now have in be taken. Für years; for a quarter off. of a century, in fact, we have pointed out that the revenue was necessarily a precarit s one, and that its abolition should always be kepi steadily in view." Only a year ago our special correspondent, when wing on the two colon- ies, again called pointed attention to the matter. The solution of it has now apprently to be faced at an earlier date then was general | Werner Lauric); it is sigu‹ficant that when the ly contemplated. In the case of the Straits lady writer really gets to the business of the Settlements, hall the revenue is collected by book (near the end, that is) and hands out some means of the opium farms, whilst in Hong; practial advice to the Vahappy, the first sugges kong, the collection brin, s in one-third of the tion itt divorce should be as accessible to grois annual revenue It is perhaps a tribute women as in may. Though it ought to be rx.. to their ardour that certain members of Parlia-pected, of course, that a lady wou'd look after mest and others call for immediate abolition of the trade in, and consumption of, opitim is Crowa Colonier. But attention must be paid to the ci cumstances and the gravity surround jag instant action. There is one other point that must not be left out: Chion has pledged the opium revenue for the repayment of some dher obligations For instance, the loan of £1,100,000 m de by the government of Hong-. kong to the Viceroy of Wachang for the re
her own sex frəti
Marriage has been aply described as besieged fortress; those inside want to get out, and those out want to get in. The author tries gallantly to do justice to both difficulties. Geberally speaking, she would make it easier to get in and out of marriage. She thoroughly andeiatands what Slavenson meant when be wrote, "God made un-by we marry ourselves." She does not believe marriages are made to heaven-in any large quantity at le st
ON APPROVAL..
The best we can expect will be a continuance of irksome but pacific relations' with, Kabul. The worst would be a campaign which might outright at Causeway Bay, yesterday morning, taty system as the Transvaal War itself. Nay, as the result of an accident. The coolic, who more, il we are ever again involved in a great is about fifty-six years of age, was walking, struggle upon the frontier, we shall have to face along the trum track on the Shau ki-wan Road the simultaneous risk of popular mutiny, work- bound for Causeway Bay, at about half-pasting, not by, organised military means, but by eight o'clock.. In front of him was a truck bomb-flinging, and by all the recognised re- running along the rails in his direction. Be sources of political outrage in the West. hind, bim was a tramcar. When it was too late the old man attempted to get out of the way, but this was impossible as his passage was obstruct ad by the truck. He was hit by the car aud thrown up against the track, receiving serious injuries about the head. e was picked up in Government Civil Hospital by the police. a 'semi-conscious condition und sent to the
Owing to the man's age his condition is serious.
BOY KING'S GLUMENCY.
Acting Agent.
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AMAZING REVELATIONS OF MRS.. QUINNËSS'S CRIMES,
New York, May 7. To-day's excavations in the Indians garden of mystery attached to the burned farmhousa of Mrs. Pella Guinness, who lured matrimonial suitors to her Laporte home, apparently look their money and their lives, and then buried their bodies, bring the number of dis- covered corpses to nine, which, with the four Are victims, makes the record of murdered creatures 13,
Habibullah has spokeo us. fair upon the rare occasions when he has been induced to com- INDIANA GARDEN OF MYSTERY. musicate at all, but he has, behaved like an enemy. From the first moment of his reigo be employed religious influence to neutralize our nominal suzerainty over the tribes within the to recruit a Pretorian guard of Afridis. Heps Durand line. He endeavoureu unsuccessfully
tronisedxha mullahs and fanatics who had been 'mont hostile to British influence upon our own side of the frontier. He refused to enter into closer relations. Be evaded every; attempt to hold any full communication with him. He tried from the first to prevent us from knowing what was really happening in Afghanistan, King Manuel, wishing to celebrate the taking The mission of Sir Louis Dane was an absolute of the oath by an act of clemency, to-day sigo, falar, and Habibullah, upon his subsequent. ed a complete amnesty for those implicated in vifit to India, when the title of "Majcity" was political revolts up to 31 Jan. The number of mast unwisely accorded to him, bebaved more those affected is over 706, and includes several like a suzerain prince than like the representa important politicians elected to the present..tise of an allied and minor Power. Parliament,
AN AMNESTY FOR ALL SAVE THE FIGICIDES,
Lisbon, May 6th.
The amnesty, it will be noted, excludes those implicated in the assassinations of 2 Feb,
The young King is keenly anxious to in struct himself in politics and finance, and has appointed as professors to the royal house several well-known former Cabinet Ministers.
THE PROCESSION.
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The city was decorated and troops guarded all the streats over the two miles between the demption of the Hankew-Canton railway con
royal palace and the Parliament, adds Reuter. cension in secured on the opium revenue of the
The roy 1r cession consisted of five carriages, Ha-kwang and Kwangtung. It is true the
the King being in the lasi, while in the carriage. lait Imperial Edict recognised that sleps must "Of all the revolutionary suggestions for imimmediately preceding him were high state officials with the crown on a cushion of rich be taken to replace the revenue that will be proving the present marriage system,” she says,
velvet, lost from opium, and the Board of Revenua is the most sensible and fessible srema to mo commanded to devise means. Bui, sa in the marriage on approval. The procedure would case of Hongkong and Straits revenues, it is be somewhat as follows: A couple on deciding easier to destroy than to create in this matter to marry would go through a legal form of of revenue. The task is not impossible, but it contract, agreeing to take each other as hus, requires time for ar jariment. The sum of the band and wife for a limited term of years-say whole matter is that Great Britain has now three." Then the parties would have the option unmistakably shown her good will to China, of separating. They would be free to wed and her high moral standard on the subject. again, but "the second essay must be final and But this new zeal must not outrun discretion, permanent from the start." Our policy should be to move step by step pazi pass with the actual accomplishments of China.
CHAIR COOLIKS BEHAVIOUR-
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ACCUSED OF REFUSING HIRE.
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But Mr. George Meredith's suggestion, Leasehold Marriage, for a term, say, of 10 years though it seems only the same as Marriage on Approval except that the time limit is extended,
she will pot agree to.
"When people are all faithful, content, pure. minded and utterly unselish, free marriage may be worth considering."
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His Majesty was attired in full state robes with a mantle of garnet-colored velvet, lined with ermine. 7 brou hout the royal progress from the Necessidades Palace to the Cortes crowds greeted, the monarch beartily, while the balconies of the houses, richly hung with draperies, were filled with ladies. The Parlia ment building was reached at sen minules past two.
King Manuel was greeted on alighting by Senhor Azevedo and the peers and deputies with him. A procession was formed, in which
Ray Lamphere, the farmhand who is in gaol charged with arson, is expected to throw come light on the ghastly story of the humans abat. toir. It is alleged that he was infatuated with Mrs. Guinness, who was a big woman of extra- ordinary strength, and who always led the neighbours to believe that she was passionately fod of little girls. Indeed, she used to attend religious picnics, and generally deliver a pious address, winding up with an invitation to children who were unhappy at home to come and stay at her farmhouse for a few weeks,
The polio are hard at work pulling up the cemented cellar, confident that they will dir{ cover a veritable chamber of horrors calculated to make Bluebeard's closet child's play in comparison. They hays found traces of quick. Then came the episode of the Anglo-Russian:-lime, both in the garden graveyard and in the Convention, Afghanistan was treated, in a vault under the ruins of the house.. phrase once famous in frontier diplomacy, "like. a pipkin between two-stones. The Amir was not slighted, as some persons suggest. He was timply and necessarily ignored. No other course could have been taken without putting him on a level with the King-Emperor and the Cer. When the instrument was concluded, Habibullah was invited to signify his adhesion to it. The proceedings of his subjects have given the clearest possible indication of their Sovereign's frame of mind on this point. From the outset of the Mohmand rising there were plain and disquieting proofs that Afghan levies were making commen cause with the inju gent tribesmien. The next step must be to ask the Amir to explain himself. It will be equally desirable to crush without compunction outrage in India itself, and to lay a heavy hand upon a licentious and venomous Press spreading day
·MYSTERIOUS UNDERGROUND ROOMS. Lamphere says that there were certain under- ground rooms which he was never permitted to sea. There she interviewed atradgets. One of these chambers communicated by a passage
with the barn out of doors, and is believed to
In each case the body had been thrust into a have been the morgue for the victims. by day, without scruple or restraint, the pro-Back, carefully tied, and I berally sprinkled with paganda of treason,
chloride of limr. This has made identification
·KULANGSU (AMOY) MUNICIPAL extremely difficult, especially as in addition the heads or arms had been severed, and apparecily purposely mixed in order to baffle the police in the event of discovery being made,
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The authorities assert that they have evideren
of mysterious trunks having arrived from. Chi- cago, and hint that they contained bodies for- Mrs. Guinues to dispose of in her family
Minutes of a meeting of the Council, held at the King was followed by the pages of noble the Board Room, on the 19th May, 1998: families, the infante Dom Carlos, iho Ministers Present: Messrs. W. H. Wallace (Chair and Councillors of State, the members of Par.min), C. A. V. Bowra, Puing Ta'an-chew, W. liament; dignitaries of the Court and of the Kruse, S, Okuyams, W, Wilson and the Secre- State, and heralds,
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The minutes of the last meeting were read impossible at present to identify the wo hud confirmed.
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"This morning, at the Folice Court, two chair coolies were charged before Mr J. R. Wood, at the instance of inspector Ritchie with re- fasing to accept hire while not engaged. The complainant was Mr. M. Schindewolf, of the Deutsch Asiatische Bank. The inspector all 'ged ibal early on Sunday morning the com, able cercal-(known as wild oats when saw. right hand on the Missal, and pronounced the Hoat, and Hap Kas, requesting that the hours the police throughout the world is being sought
À petition was read from the following Dairy man's charred remains recovered with the three and please don't forgot
Here is a tip to bachelors. "A woman- new atila-who has knocked about over ball the world and sown's mild crop of the delect
by men)—will prove a far better wife, a more cheary friend, and faithful comiads than the girl of mere or less the same type whose first experience you are.”.
plainant attempted to engage the defendants chair to take him from the Peak to the town, Defendants, be stated, for some reason or a other, refused to accept complainant, who handed them over fo an Indian policaman, to- gether with a note to the officer on duty request, ing him to have the cookes charged.. This was done, When, the coalies were mirsigned be fore the Magistrate this morning, after having been detained at headquarters since their arrest, I know, a woman whose husband in a
Food cooked at home is the cause of half the trouble, and Mrs. Braby recommends the: Vegetarian Husband to her girl friends. He. certainly would be a treasure, when like the husband in a story she tells.
the complaisant did not appear to prosecute, vegetarian, and she declares the food q testion Inspector Rische applied to the Court for a day's has never caused her a single tear. Her adjournment with a view to having the com. | husband would cheerfully breakfast off a plainant subpcused. He added that it was not banans, lùach off a lettuce, dise on a date, right for Europeans to hand Chinese over to and sup on a salied almond. policemen to be locked up and yet not appear to prosecute His Worship, however, decided to discharge the men, and did so,
Our local Consols may be considered locky in love, and other
His Majesty having takon his scat on the Throne, Seaker Azevedo at once stepped for- ward with the Missal and a crucifix, The King, faking in his left hand the sceptre, placed his oil to the constitution, saying, in a clear firm tone:
I swear to maintain the Apostolic Roman Catholic religion and the integrity of the Kingdom. I swear to observe, and to cause to be observed, the political constitution of the Portuguesa nation, and the other laws of the Kingdom, and to care for the general welfare of the nation at far as it is is my The King then addressed the asembly briefly, and Count San Lourenco, the Grand Ensigb; raised the royal standard.
power,
Senhor Azevedo made a short reply to the zoyal addre 6, and a general cry resounded,
was cut off and cannot be found. The aid of Formers:-Kulangso Milk and Produce Com-children from the ruins of the house. The head piny. Jap Soon, Eng Hap, Chost Hoa, Goan
to arrest Guinness, in caso she' has escaped, for allowing cattle and buffaloes being out for grizing be altered to "got before 5.30 am, and possibly to Liverpool, en route-for her native, potter than 7.30 p.m.* instead of an at pre-land, Norway, sent not before 8 sm or after 4 pm: The application was refused, whe
The Secretary was directed to forward to the Senior Consul for the approval of the Consular Body, a proclamation by which hall the Opium Shops will be cinsed on the 31st March, 1999,
it is
FULL MOON NIGHT.
UNDER
Lamphere insists that she had a warning THE 13TH RAJPUTS BAND from her relatives that persons who weig known to have stopped with her had since dis appeared, and that the police were coming to search her premises. He says that drove her to distraction and suicide, but that theory does
and the remaining half on the 31st March, 1910, not explain, the woman's decapitated body
The Superintendent of Police reported the following cases have been dealt with at the Nixed Copit since the last meeting-Bam- mouses: Allowing pigs and catile to stray 7, Throwing subbish &c, into the public draina6,
Even the arch criminal of this generation could
not cut off ber own head,
Conductor Mr. T. C. COKE will perform on the Lawn during and after Dinner (wet or fine),
The meals of the dear man, that is to say, "To the most high, most powerful, and very Obstructing the public drains 4 Assault could hang him for a dozen capital crimes. Many thanks, I will ring
were simply alliterative, AS AN
THE LONG-SUFFERING CREATURE."- :"When the house was upset on the occasion of a largo evening party, and there, were no conveniences for the ordinary family dinner, the creature actually ate cheese sandwiches in the bith room and was quite pleased in do so." hen why refer to him as a "creature"), It'ia úbvirus that when thu lady, spikor does really war that another oneffecover the kind of character.
Jottery,asive nearly iba whole marriakej
the man's aide ale despites him
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faltbfol King of Portugal, Dom Manuel. Damaging property 1, Debt 2, Contempt of The Grand Ensign then stepped on to the Count 4, Obtaining goods under false prolences great balcony of the Parliament Palace, attend Summary Arrests: Being a rogue and a ed by heralda and other officiale, and formally vagabond, &c. 2, Failing to obey an order of the
Mixad Conit.f proclaimed Dom Mangel 11,...,
The crowds, before the palace took up the th' anthusiasm, and abouted. Long live
(Signed), WAH, WALLACE, T
This evening, the State Prosecutor, fresh from an interview with Lamphere, said: "He has given me information on which I Evidence is accumulating that Mr. Gain, ness was, the head of a gigantic murder trust Her victims thought they had her love and her money, but she outwitted them. They never lived to tell the falat
Bessie Con “Lamphere's' swanikoar
you up again for senta required.
CHAITOR OF OW
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